LONDON: The man who appears destined to be Britain’s next Labour prime minister received a hero’s welcome in parliament on Monday, after incumbent Keir Starmer announced his resignation.
Veteran politician Andy Burnham, fresh from his UK by-election victory last week, was sworn in as an MP.
Afterwards he greeted supporters in parliament’s medieval Westminster Hall with a fist pump and snapped a selfie in front of a group of around 200 Labour colleagues.
The newly-elected MP was clapped by fellow Labour lawmakers including Wes Streeting, a former minister seen until earlier Monday as his main rival for the premiership.
One MP heckled him shouting “he’s not the messiah.”
